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While sitting in the Mobile, Ala., airport, my phone began to vibrate – not a good sign on Sunday evening. Answering, my wife said through her tears “Leroy Krolczyk just transferred his home to glory.” Many who read this would not know Leroy, but he was precious to Southwestern and especially precious to me. After he served with his wife Sharon for quite a number of years as Minister of Music in our churches, he joined the staff of Houston Baptist University in Institutional Advancement. Later, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was able to secure his services to assist in our growing Havard Campus in Houston.

At the plenary session of the Brazilian Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, Feb. 7, guest speaker Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Seminary, preached from the personal Bible of missionary William Buck Bagby, one of the six founders of the first Baptist church in Brazil. This “Bagby Bible” is the same copy of God’s word that Bagby had in his pocket when he first arrived in Brazil in 1881 and from which he subsequently preached his first sermons in the country.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has acquired 32 books owned and autographed by noted Greek New Testament scholar A.T. Robertson, who taught at Southern Seminary for 44 years until his death in 1934. These volumes, which now reside in the Southwestern library’s rare books collection, are inscribed by Robertson in his own handwriting.

On the blistery cool afternoon of Feb. 5, roughly an hour before Southwestern’s daily “Going the Second Mile” evangelism effort was scheduled to begin, a Southwestern security guard met a teenage boy on campus who had never heard the full story of Jesus. The security guard took the opportunity to share the Gospel, and after hearing, the boy surrendered his life to Christ.

The J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation, a non-profit corporation that supports the work of Christian organizations and educational institutions, has awarded Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary a $1 million challenge grant toward the construction of a new 73,000-square foot building for the College at Southwestern and the Roy Fish School of Evangelism and Missions. The building is tentatively named “Mathena Hall,” in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mathena, who contributed a lead gift of $12 million to the construction project last fall. With the addition of the Mabee Foundation gift, along with other gifts already in hand for the project, Southwestern Seminary now has nearly two-thirds of the funds needed for construction.

Southwestern President Paige Patterson’s visit to Baguio City in the Philippines, Jan. 3-12, symbolically sealed the partnership between Southwestern Seminary and the Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. The partnership, which has been in the works for the last year, is being coordinated through Southwestern’s Global Theological Innovation and will allow Southwestern to aid in the theological education of God-called men and women in the Philippines.

With the changing culture and movement away from a biblical worldview, Brian Baldwin says youth in the United States have reached a critical point and are in a state of “code blue.” The South Tulsa (Okla.) Baptist Church (STBC) graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary says youth today have transitioned from an Acts 2 to an Acts 17 society.

Mrs. Joyce Rogers and the Rogers family have honored Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with the incredible gift of the study furnishings and resources of their husband and father, Adrian Rogers. This includes desks, 3,500 books, sermon notes, photographs, and letters. This gracious and sacrificial gift significantly enhances the preaching resources available now to churches and pastors of the evangelical world through Southwestern Seminary.

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While sitting in the Mobile, Ala., airport, my phone began to vibrate – not a good sign on Sunday evening. Answering, my wife said through her tears “Leroy Krolczyk just transferred his home to glory.” Many who read this would not know Leroy, but he was precious to Southwestern and especially precious to me. After he served with his wife Sharon for quite a number of years as Minister of Music in our churches, he joined the staff of Houston Baptist University in Institutional Advancement. Later, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was able to secure his services to assist in our growing Havard Campus in Houston.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) - Free Chick-Fil-A, bounce houses and games for kids, and the opportunity to engage fellow students, faculty, and prospective students characterized Southwestern Seminary’s first-ever Fall Festival, Oct. 16. The event, which took place on the lawn of Pecan Manor, was put on by Student Life in conjunction with the Fall Preview Conference.

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The Southern Baptist TEXAN released a story, Jan. 28, about a new book by Richard Ross, professor of student ministry at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The book, titled The Senior Pastor and the Reformation of Youth Ministry, expounds the role of senior pastors in unlocking “true reformation” in youth ministry.